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Hal Masonberg retweeted
Free the Palestine Action four being harshly sentenced with a "terrorism connection"! Opposing genocide is a foundation of humanity, not a terrorist cause.
🚨BREAKING -- A judge has ruled that four Palestine Action activists will be sentenced with a "terrorism connection". Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema Rajwani, and Charlotte Head appeared in Woolwich Crown Court today after being convicted of criminal damage at an Elbit Systems factory in 2024. Judge Johnson ruled: "I am sure each of the defendant's offence involved serious damage to property, was designed to influence the UK government, to intimidate a section of the public, and was for the purpose of advancing a political or ideological cause". The section of the public referred to by Johnson was employees of and companies linked to Elbit Systems, which he said constitutes a "section of the public". Johnson added: "It follows I am bound by this legislation to find that the offence in each case had a terrorist connection and apply that as an aggravating factor in increasing the seriousness of the offence". This is the first time in British history that terrorism provisions have been used against direct action activists.
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"We are the only people in history who are expected to witness our own genocide,and then watch what we say so we don't hurt the feelings of the people who did this" (Susan Abulhawa, Palestinian/US scientist and writer)
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Hal Masonberg retweeted
Elon Musk didn’t become a trillionaire by working hard. He got there by exploiting workers and receiving government subsidies. Remember that next time rich ppl shame you for wanting a so-called “handout.”
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Elon Musk is officially the first trillionaire in human history.
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Hal Masonberg retweeted
Everything they told you about China and Russia is actually true of Israel Zionist meddling is a national security emergency
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Bolivia está haciendo una revolución. Los ponchos rojos rompe el cerco policial de la Paz
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Hal Masonberg retweeted
Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries currentaffairs.org/news/how-…
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Hal Masonberg retweeted
People who say "Zionism is just the belief that Jews should have a homeland" are hilarious. Zionism isn't some abstraction; we can all see its material manifestations with our own eyes. We can all see that Zionism means genocide, apartheid, and nonstop wars and abuse. This isn't some kind of theoretical debate where we all get to have our own opinions about what Zionism is and what it entails. It's 2026, not 1890. The facts are in and the case is closed, kids. This is what Zionism is. This is the only Zionism in existence. What you see is what you get. And what you see is quantifiably one of the most evil things happening on our planet.
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Hal Masonberg retweeted
The lady who helped keep the Gaza genocide trains running on time gets her reward
We’re delighted to announce Avril Haines as the next president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. One of the most respected national security leaders of her generation, Avril brings a deep commitment to public service and the values at the heart of our mission.
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Hal Masonberg retweeted
The israeli genocide is in 4K on your telly, so you can’t say you didn’t know, you can only say you didn’t care | Irish actor Liam Cunningham
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Hal Masonberg retweeted
Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany needed compliant judges to provide a legal veneer to their darkest crimes. Judge Johnson joins their wretched company. He overturned a jury's conviction of four anti-genocide activists for criminal damage and sentenced them as terrorists instead. As one their barristers pointed out, the four defendants were initially arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in an act of terrorism. But the prosecution decided not to charge them with terrorism offences because it knew no jury would ever convict them based on the evidence. Instead the Crown held two trials: a sham one for the jury, and the real one conducted in secret by the judge. That is not justice. It is a show trial worthy of the worst tyrannical regimes.
Here’s injustice Jeremy Johnson handing down the sentences at today’s disgusting stitched up Palestine Action trial. Any faith I ever had in the fairness of the British justice system is completely is dead.
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Hal Masonberg retweeted
Forever grateful to the indefatigable @PeterBeinart and all others who have pushed back against these ridiculous attacks against me and other critics of the war!
More eloquently than almost anyone else in Washington, @tparsi warned that this war against Iran would be a catastrophe. His reward? The Trump administration is reportedly considering deporting him. This is how America makes itself both stupid and unfree. Anyone who cares about intelligent debate, freedom and basic decency must speak now.
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Hal Masonberg retweeted
Iran has hitched its fate to two countries undergoing occupation and genocide - Lebanon and Palestine - by a criminal pariah. This is righteous courage on steroids.
Message from Iran to the Palestinians: We are fighting for you, We will be with you until the full liberation of Palestine, God willing.
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The ongoing attacks in the Middle East are deadly serious. The Israeli state has abandoned even the pretence of the so-called ceasefire with the Iranian state. We need mass movements to end ALL military aid to Israel, and we need leaders who will unambiguously fight for this demand. I am an independent revolutionary socialist running for Congress. I have two Democratic Party opponents in this race. One is 29-year incumbent Democrat Adam Smith, who has sent tens of billions of dollars for the genocide in Gaza. Smith is currently pushing for over a TRILLION NEW dollars for Trump’s wars. His new bill would ALSO merge the U.S. and Israeli militaries. The second Democrat in this race, Melissa Chaudhry, does not call for an end to military aid to Israel. The words Israel, Gaza, Palestine, and occupation DO NOT EVEN APPEAR on her website. She recently said to a Democratic Party audience that she will be a “team player.” This is how the Democratic Party operates: they give a choice between an openly-pro imperialist candidate, and a candidate who is running an establishment-friendly campaign and telling us she will be a “team player” with the rest of the Democratic Party. If the Democratic Party wants to stop Trump’s war on Iran, all they need to do is announce that they are fighting for a bill to cut off military aid to Israel and rally hundreds of thousands of ordinary people to support it. This would be HUGELY popular right now. But not only are Democrats not willing to do that, a majority of them, including Adam Smith, voted in December to give over $906 billion dollars for Trump’s wars. The Democratic and Republican parties both represent the war profiteering billionaire class. And individual politicians build their careers by trying not to rock the boat. I am not running to build my career. I am running because we need an antiwar fighter in Congress. We don’t need any more status quo politicians. We need someone who will DISRUPT business as usual. I am fighting for an end to all military aid to Israel, to end all weapons and tech for genocide and imperialist war, and slash the trillion-dollar war budget to fund housing and social services instead. #socialist #israel #iran
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WHY are we letting Israeli soldiers destroy every inch of Palestine? Is it ''a war''? Would you accept others do this to you and your home? Let's stop this genocide together. Diplomats Politicians Judges Police officers Journalists Citizens Anyone can and must take action.
This is Beit Lahia in northern Gaza. Just now, Israel blew up homes and demolished what remained of other buildings across the city, reducing more of it to rubble.
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Hal Masonberg retweeted
Yes. Gwyneth Paltrow is a Zionist. She also spread the Oct. 7th sexual violence lie. She was one of the celebrities that signed that letter to Biden.
Gwyneth Paltrow stars in new campaign for Israel luxury housing development ‘51PARK’ in Herzliya.
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Hal Masonberg retweeted
The rising tide of fascism that has been fed by racist Western tech oligarchs, politicians, media corporations, and Israel regime proxies is no longer confined to Neo-Nazi marches, Zionist parades, MAGA rallies, and back-woods Klan meetings. We are seeing bloody pogroms from Belfast to the West Bank, police violence against human rights defenders in Berlin, London, and New York, the dismantling of free speech across the West, open attacks on minorities, Muslims, and migrants, mass surveillance and mass incarceration, far-right governments in Washington, Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, Rome, Budapest, and beyond, serial aggression across Western Asia and Latin America, and ongoing genocide in Palestine. For those of you sleepwalking to a fascist dystopia, it’s time to wake up. Never doubt that you will eventually be in their gunsights as well.
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Iran's military response to the US and Israel cannot be viewed in a vacuum — its decision to attack Tel Aviv and American military bases in the region was preceded by Israel's egregious war crime of killing negotiators working on behalf of Iran twice as well as the initial launching of hostilities by the Trump administration and Israel. Trump believed he could replicate the Venezuela outcome in Iran. The reality, however, is that Iran holds all the cards in these talks, and it will not give them up.
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Let’s stop calling it settler violence. It is settler TERROR. These criminals roam the West Bank with impunity, and the world stays silent.
The horrifying assault on our friend Abu Ayoub in the village of Fakhit, as captured by security cameras. Abu Ayoub is currently hospitalized with a fractured skull after undergoing emergency surgery during the night.
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Hal Masonberg retweeted
Elon Musk: "I don't believe Africa's poverty is caused by colonialism." Michael Parenti: "The Third World is not poor. It is over exploited.” Capitalism is maintained through imperialism and the theft of resources from third world countries. This is why the US is always at war.
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Hal Masonberg retweeted
If you read one article today, it should be former CIA analyst Paul Pillar’s alarm bell of how the Senate wants to force the US to share sensitive intel with Israel at the expense of the US itself. “In intelligence, Israel is more of an adversary than an ally. Being an adversary in intelligence means indulging in the hostile act of espionage. Israel has a long record of conducting that type of hostile act against the United States.” responsiblestatecraft.org/us…
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